The art of acting on stage is analysed here not only from the theoretical perspective of a spectator, but also from the perspective of the actor. The author draws on her experience as a theatre actor and a university professor whose teaching relies heavily on personal experience and her philosophical knowledge.

This third edition includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. It provides a lively and accessible overview for undergraduates and graduate students.

This book is the first to examine age across the modern and contemporary dramatic canon, from Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams to Paula Vogel and Doug Wright. All ages across the life course are interpreted as performance and performative both on page and on stage.

This book examines the relationship between wartime conflict and theatre practices. Bringing together a diverse collection of essays in one volume, it offers both a geographically and historically wide view of the subject.

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Established in 1982, Australasian Drama Studies (ADS) is a fully peer-reviewed journal which publishes articles, interviews, and production casebooks on world theatre by Australasian and international scholars.

With an emphasis on the experimental, avant-garde, intercultural and interdisciplinary, TDR covers dance theatre, performance art, popular entertainment, media, sports, rituals and performance in politics and everyday life.

NJ is an internationally respected peer-reviewed journal, providing the drama education community of teachers, arts practitioners and researchers with reflection, discussion and research into innovative drama praxis, across the many fields of drama practice in Australia and internationally.

Theatre Journal features social and historical studies, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries that analyze dramatic texts and production. Theatre Journal is an official publication of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).

Theatre Research International publishes articles on theatre practices in their social, cultural, and historical contexts, their relationship to other media of representation, and to other fields of inquiry. The journal seeks to reflect the evolving diversity of critical idioms prevalent in the scholarship of differing world contexts.

Large, multidisciplinary, full text database. Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, and social sciences.

Drawing on the work of international experts as well as case studies from a range of forms and genres – including screenwriting, fiction filmmaking, documentary production and mobile media practice – the book is an essential guide for those interested in the rich relationship between theory and practice. It provides theories, models, tools and best practice examples that students and researchers can follow and expand upon in their own screen production projects.

Digital Storytelling shows you how to create immersive, interactive narratives across a multitude of platforms, devices, and media. From age-old storytelling techniques to cutting-edge development processes, this book covers creating stories for all forms of New Media, including transmedia storytelling, video games, mobile apps, and second screen experiences.

This book offers a clear view of the relationship between the story/script structure and the visual structure of a film, video, animated piece, or video game. Understanding visual structure allows you to communicate moods and emotions, and most importantly, reveals the critical relationship between story structure and visual structure.

If it's Purple, Someone's Gonna Die is a must-read book for all film students, film professionals, and others interested in filmmaking. It guides filmmakers toward making the right colour selections for their films, and helps movie buffs understand why they feel the way they do while watching movies that incorporate certain colours.

Enhance the visual quality of your motion pictures and digital videos with a solid understanding of lighting fundamentals. This complete course in digital video lighting begins with how the human eye and the camera process light and colour, progresses through the basics of equipment and setups, and finishes with practical lessons on how to solve common problems.

Single-camera Video Production clearly explains the technology and the equipment of video production and details step-by-step the professional-level techniques that can be applied to any type of production or budget. In addition, this manual will train you to integrate technique, equipment, and creative concerns within the production process – from preproduction planning through final editing.

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Continuum is an academic journal of media and cultural studies. For over two decades it has contributed to the formation of these disciplines by identifying new areas for investigation and developing new agendas for enquiry in the fields.

The International Journal on Media Management is a peer-reviewed academic journal. It provides a global examination of the fields of media and telecommunications management, with a strong emphasis on management issues.

The Journal of Communication concentrates on communication research, practice, policy, and theory, bringing to its readers the latest, broadest, and most important findings in the field of communication studies. It also features an extensive book review section, and the symposia of selected studies on current issues

Media, Culture & Society provides a major international, peer-reviewed forum for the presentation of research and discussion concerning the media, including the newer information and communication technologies, within their political, economic, cultural and historical contexts.

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Music

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James Tenney did pioneering work in computer music, tuning theory, and algorithmic and computer-assisted composition. From Scratch is a collection of Tenney's hard-to-find writings arranged, edited, and revised. Selections focus on his fundamental concerns "what the ear hears" and include thoughts and ideas on perception and form, tuning systems and especially just intonation, information theory, theories of harmonic space, and procedures of composition.

Music Theory For Beginners was developed for anyone interested in learning to read and write music, a task that can be quite daunting for novices. This book, however, will allay any fears and set you on the path to learning what all those dots, lines, and symbols actually mean.

Sound and Music for the Theatre traces the process of sound design from initial concept through implementation in actual performances. The book discusses the early evolution of sound design and how it supports the play, from researching sources for music and effects, to negotiating a contract. It shows you how to organize the construction of the sound design elements, how the designer functions in a rehearsal, and how to set up and train an operator to run sound equipment.

In A Style and Usage Guide to Writing About Music, Thomas Donahue presents a collection of guidelines to help express through the written word the special notations, terms, and concepts found in the discipline of music. The book draws on musically-oriented examples and is arranged by topics both musical and typographic, such as the proper use and spelling of composer names and musical concepts; the use of notes, pitches, and octave delineations; letters and numbers employed to describe form and harmony; and the proper citation of musical and audiovisual sources.

Why do we sing and what first drove early humans to sing? How might they have sung and how might those styles have survived to the present day? This history addresses these questions and more, examining singing as a historical and cross-cultural phenomenon. It explores the evolution of singing in a global context and via the varieties of world music from Orient to Occident, classical music from medieval music to the avant-garde and popular music from vaudeville to rock and beyond.

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Musicology Australia is the scholarly journal of the Musicological Society of Australia. Articles and reviews cover a broad spectrum of music research, including historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music, indigenous music practices, jazz, theory and analysis, organology, performance practice, contemporary music and psychology of music.

Provides a forum for musicians and musicologists to discuss recent musical currents in both breadth and depth. The main concern of the journal is the critical study of music today in all its aspects—its techniques of performance and composition, texts and contexts, aesthetics, technologies, and relationships with other disciplines and currents of thought.

Eighteenth-Century Music is a journal dedicated to all areas of eighteenth-century music research. It features articles and essays by leading and emerging scholars, reviews and reports on conferences and other items of interest from around the world.

Nineteenth-Century Music Review locates music within all aspects of culture in the long nineteenth century (c.1789-1914), covering the widest possible range of methods, topics and concepts. Through themed and general issues, articles provide both depth and breadth in their contribution to this expanding field.

Twentieth-Century Music disseminates research on a broad spectrum of scholarly interest in the long twentieth century. It features articles on all kinds of musical practice, including folk and popular music, media and film music, as well as art music and sound art.

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Visual arts

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Covers a broad range of subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Includes full text as well as indexing and abstracts for journals, books and more.

A collection of art reference works, including the Grove Dictionary of Art and the Benezit Dictionary of Artists. Includes journal articles that span ancient to contemporary art and architecture, as well as over 19,000 images.

Full-text scholarly journals and eBooks in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. Subjects include the visual and performing arts, literature and criticism, history, cultural studies, education, political science and gender studies.

Verbalising the Visual: Translating Art and Design into Words introduces readers to a broad range of language and terminology that can be found in current art and design discourse. Exploring the complex relationship between language, objects and meaning, this book shows you how to select and effectively employ language to present oral and written critical assessments of visual culture.

This book demonstrates that numerous prominent artists in every period of the modern era were expressing spiritual interests when they created celebrated works of art. This overview insightfully reveals the centrality of an often denied and misunderstood element in the cultural history of modern art.

The Dada movement and then the Surrealists appeared in the First World War aftermath with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins. Describing Dada with its dynamic free-thinkers, and the Surrealists with their aversive resistance to the system, the author brings a new approach to studying this period.

During the First World War the Australian Government established an official war art scheme, sending artists to the front lines to create a visual record of the Australian experience of the war. Around two thousand sketches and paintings were commissioned and acquired between 1916 and 1922. In Painting War, Margaret Hutchison examines the official art scheme as a key commemorative practice of the First World War and argues that the artworks had many makers beyond the artists.

Artist’s Toolbox: Color explains how colour captures mood and helps communicate meaning, as well as how to use colour to create personal, expressive works of art. This book explains basic colour theory and topics include the colour wheel, hue, saturation, value, temperature, relativity, colour relationships, and colour mixing.

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Contains interviews, essays and a platform for emerging practitioners and a regional focus section penned by distinguished voices from Australia and the world, including the best of contemporary creative practice.

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is published by the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. AAANZ is Australia’s professional body for art and design historians, arts writers, artists, students of art history and theory, and museum professionals.

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Dictionaries and encyclopaediae are handy for gathering background information when you start researching a topic. They can help you clarify topics and identify related concepts and terms which you can use to develop a search strategy.

Provides access to encyclopediae, dictionaries, reference books as well as images, audio files and videos. Features topic pages and a handy mind-mapping tool which can be used to identify related search terms.

Access works by playwrights & practitioners, genres, periods, as well as critiques on major works. Search for monologues by males or females and word count or find plays limited by number of total roles and scenes.

Provides access to world-wide newspapers and magazines for the last 90 days in the original format. Includes categories such as art, including the magazine Wallpaper, design, music, photography, computers and technology, crafts and hobbies.

Provides access to the full text of major Australian and New Zealand newspapers, including radio transcripts and news from current affairs television programs such as ABC's 7.30 Report. Major subject areas of study are represented including the arts.